Weary is a good word. Say it slow and breathily; it's very onomatopoeic. It is how the election has left me. Sad, discouraged, worn-out, but mostly just weary
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The election was rigged. I'm serious. The cat is in the bag, and there are a lot of people scrambling right now to try to let it out. I don't know if that will ever happen, but I'm done blaming the American people. The exit polls are accurate in states with traditional balloting, and Bush gets a +5 point bounce in states that use paperless e-voting machines. There's history, motive, method and evidence. Kerry won, and won easily.
I have no trouble believing that the Diebold machines were unreliable. Just before the election I re-read Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress which demonstrates very eloquently what you can accomplish with the computer on your side in a political struggle. Everyone trusts the machine, forgetting that programmers are people just as liable to bribe, blackmail, or political fanaticism as the next guy.
Ya know, I come back here now because I forgot that I'd already applied, and this response has so much meaning a few days later. That's exactly what's going on over here. Even if the election was legitimate, the idea that it may not have been is so completely impossible for everyone to comprehend. Trust for our system (not political system, but system of checks) is so high that everyone assumes if it were a real problem 'someone would have fixed it already.'
It would be koo-ree, with the k very subtley glottalized (just close your throat when saying the k sound so no breath goes through it) and the r slightly flipped (put your tongue on the roof of your mouth as you say the r -- almost a tiny hint of a "d" sound to it, like a spanish r (though not completely rolled, not like the spanish rr)) and the vowels very pure, no diphthonging, no y sound at the end of the ee.
I finally managed to write something again. Read Michael Moore's 17 reasons not to slit your wrists (that your mom sent out; also on my entry today). It sucks, but what choice do we have but to carry on? Here's a positive: my Republican brother-in-law voted for Kerry. He held his nose, but he did it.
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Franklin County, OH: Gahanna 1-B Precinct
638 TOTAL BALLOTS CAST
US Senator:
Fingerhut (D) - 167 votes
Voinovich (R) - 300 votes
US President:
Kerry (D) - 260 votes
Bush (R) - 4,258 votes
--http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/4/224812/643
or http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1104-38.htm
and http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
it's not science fiction anymore.
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The entire country relies on oil, not just Bush and his monetary backers/family friends. So does the UK for that matter.
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It would be koo-ree, with the k very subtley glottalized (just close your throat when saying the k sound so no breath goes through it) and the r slightly flipped (put your tongue on the roof of your mouth as you say the r -- almost a tiny hint of a "d" sound to it, like a spanish r (though not completely rolled, not like the spanish rr)) and the vowels very pure, no diphthonging, no y sound at the end of the ee.
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